Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms
NekuSoul @ nekusoul @lemmy.nekusoul.de Posts 3Comments 396Joined 2 yr. ago

NekuSoul @ nekusoul @lemmy.nekusoul.de
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If you're using it just to translate a few paragraphs of text on a website here or there, then yes, it's much better than what we had before.
For anything complex however it can't even begin to compare with a professionally done translation/localization.
To start with, Japanese is already one of the more difficult languages to localize due to a bunch of linguistic concepts that don't translate well to other languages and need creative solutions that carry over the same intent.
More important however is consistency: Even if an AI translates some of the language ticks of the characters instead of completely glossing over them, it needs to do so consistently and apply the same translation across the whole script.
The same goes for any named items. If there's a "Soul Stone" for example, you need to make sure to call it "Soul Stone" every single time and not "Spirit Rock".